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J.-H. Rosny aîné
J.-H. Rosny aîné was the principal pseudonym of Joseph-Henri Boëx (1856–1940), a Belgian-born French novelist, pioneer of prehistoric fiction and science fiction, and president of the Académie Goncourt.
J.‐F. Donati
Jean-François Donati is a French astrophysicist and CNRS research director at IRAP in Toulouse, known for mapping stellar magnetic fields and leading the ESPaDOnS and SPIRou instruments.
J.‐G. Schilling
Jean-Guy Ernest Schilling (1936–2018) was a Swiss-born marine geochemist at the University of Rhode Island whose 1973 Reykjanes Ridge study founded the Iceland mantle plume hypothesis.
J.A. Stockman
J.A. Stockman, also known as James A. Stockman, is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist whose New England Journal of Medicine work defined the anemia of prematurity and sickle-cell stroke.
J.A.R.V.I.S.
J.A.R.V.I.S., short for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System, is the fictional AI assistant Tony Stark created in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, voiced by Paul Bettany.
J.B. Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
J.B. Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, known as JB Pharma or JBCPL, is an Indian pharmaceutical company founded by J.B. Mody in 1976, known for brands like Metrogyl, Rantac, and Cilacar.
J.B. Jennings
J.B. Jennings is an American Republican politician who has represented Maryland's 7th district in the State Senate since 2011, after serving in the House of Delegates from 2003 to 2011.
J.B. Mauney
J.B. Mauney (James Burton Mauney), "The Dragon Slayer," retired American bull rider, two-time PBR World Champion (2013, 2015), record $7.42 million earnings, retired 2023 after neck injury, now Oklahoma Wildcatters head coach.
J.C. Bamford Excavators
J.C. Bamford Excavators, known as JCB, is a British family-owned maker of construction equipment, founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in 1945 and best known for backhoe loaders.
J.Crew
J.Crew is an American preppy apparel retailer of J.Crew Group (with J.Crew Factory and Madewell), catalog-founded in 1983, bankrupt in 2020 with $1.65B debt swapped to equity under Anchorage Capital, now with 114 J.Crew, 160 Madewell, and 395 Factory US stores.
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere (1930–2014) was a Nigerian photographer best known for the Hairstyles series, nearly a thousand black-and-white photographs of Nigerian women's hairstyles taken from behind.
J.D. (Scrubs)
J.D. (Dr. John Michael Dorian) is the protagonist and narrator of the medical comedy Scrubs, played by Zach Braff, based on cardiologist Jonathan Doris; intern-to-chief-of-medicine arc at Sacred Heart, divorced from Elliot in the 2026 ABC revival.
J.D. Chaplin
J.D. Chaplin is an American politician and Republican member of the South Carolina Senate from District 29, elected in 2024, when he unseated Gerald Malloy by a recount.
J.D. Mesnard
J.D. Mesnard is an American Republican politician who represents Arizona's 13th Senate district, covering Chandler, Gilbert, and Sun Lakes, and previously served as Speaker of the Arizona House.
J.Derobie
J.Derobie, born Derick Obuobie Jnr in Yendi, Ghana in 1994, is a Ghanaian dancehall and afrobeats singer whose 2019 single "Poverty" won him two major awards.
J.E. Folk
J.E. Folk, John E. Folk (1925–2010), was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered the hypusine modification of eIF5A, essential for cell growth.
J.F. Pantridge
J.F. Pantridge, known as Frank Pantridge, was a Northern Irish cardiologist who built the first portable defibrillator and started the world's first prehospital cardiac care unit in Belfast in 1966.
J.G. Heathcote
J.G. Heathcote is a British biochemist who researched oral vitamin B12 treatment of pernicious anemia at St Helens Hospital and the University of Salford, publishing from 1958 to 1976.
J.G. Seidman
J.G. Seidman, or Jonathan G. Seidman, is a human molecular geneticist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School known for identifying genes that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and congenital heart defects.
J.H. Whitney & Company
J.H. Whitney & Company is a New Canaan, Connecticut private equity firm founded in 1946 by John Hay "Jock" Whitney, often credited as one of the first U.S. private equity firms.
J.H.D. Cate
J.H.D. Cate, also known as Jamie H. D. Cate, is an American structural biologist at UC Berkeley known for crystal structures of the bacterial ribosome.
J.J. Grow
J.J. Grow is an American Republican politician and Inverness businessman elected to the Florida House from District 23 in 2024, winning 74% of the vote over Democrat Judith Vowels.
J.J. Skehel
J.J. Skehel, also known as John J. Skehel, is an English virologist who determined the three-dimensional structure of influenza haemagglutinin and directed London's NIMR from 1987 to 2006.
J.J.G. Tesmer
J.J.G. Tesmer, also known as John J.G. Tesmer, is an American structural biologist at Purdue University known for determining atomic structures of GPCR signaling proteins.
J.L. Burton
J.L. Burton, or John Lloyd Burton, was a British dermatologist at the University of Bristol known for research on sebaceous glands and skin lipid biochemistry.
J.L. Hamerton
J.L. Hamerton, full name John Laurence Hamerton, was a British-born cytogeneticist who headed Human Genetics at the University of Manitoba and co-authored the 1956 paper fixing the human chromosome count at 46.
J.Lo (album)
J.Lo is Jennifer Lopez's second studio album (Epic, January 16, 2001), named after her fan nickname. It debuted at number one in the US the same week The Wedding Planner topped the box office, and was reissued in 2026.
J.M. Walshe
John Michael Walshe (1920–2022) was a British physician-scientist in hepatology at Cambridge and University College Hospital who discovered the three main drug treatments for Wilson's disease.
J.M. White
The J.M. White was a sidewheel cotton packet steamboat built in 1878 at Jeffersonville, Indiana, running the lower Mississippi until she burned at a Louisiana landing in 1886.
J.N. Blau
J.N. Blau, Joseph Norman ('Nat') Blau (1928–2010), was a British neurologist and migraine specialist who co-founded the City of London Migraine Clinic and identified migraine's pre-headache prodrome.